When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.